Twin brothers Ricardo and Renaldo Ram, 20, are now dead after an accident on Tuesday along the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
Ricardo died on Tuesday morning, while Renaldo succumbed on Wednesday morning to his injuries.
The twins, of Canal Number One, West Bank Demerara, had been travelling on a motorcycle when the accident occurred.
According to a police press release, Renaldo was riding with Ricardo as the pillion rider when he lost control of the bike and crashed into a parked trailer.
Ricardo was subsequently pronounced dead at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH), while Renaldo was treated and transferred to the Georgetown Public Hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries a day later.
Their distraught father Ramsundar Ram told Stabroek News that he had gotten a call early Tuesday morning to report to the WDRH because his sons were involved in an accident. He said when he had arrived at the hospital he saw the two bodies next to each other badly injured.
“I see the two of them laying next to each other and only one of them moving. That’s when I found out that Renaldo had died,” the father said, before pointing out that a woman in a car had brought them to the hospital. He was unable to find her after he visited his two sons.
“They’re young boys. I know they does speed but it don’t make sense how they would just crash into a park trailer, you know?” Ram said, while explaining that he had initially heard from a witness that a truck had hit them and caused them to crash into the parked trailer.
“I remember going to the hospital [GPHC] and seeing him [Renaldo] and he was talking and conscious,” Ram added. He said that prior to going into surgery, his son was conscious. “I get a call the next day to go to the hospital and there he was lying there, not responding,” he, however, added.
